EEA air quality web dissemination solution - recommendations for further development ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2006/9

Summary

The current report is a deliverable in the ETC project of 2006, task 5.3.2.2 “Presentation and Dissemination of air quality data in the Neighbourhood project”, and subtask 1: User review work - Recommendation report. The input for this report is mainly: • Meeting and discussions with EEA staff and EEA hired consultants during the finalisation period of the first edition of the ozone web spring 2006 • Expert workshop held in Copenhagen 8-9 March 2006 • Visit and discussion with AIRPARIF 12 April 2006 • Review of the final ozone web • Review of several national solutions • Analysis of lessons learned and experiences from NETCEN being responsible for the British solution, AIRPARIF for the Paris solution and NILU for the Norwegian solution • Analysis of the results from the APNEE and APNEE-TU research projects • General experience from the authors in developing and running web dissemination solutions for several countries. It should be noted that we cannot guarantee that we have gotten the full overview of existing solutions in Europe. Furthermore the short descriptions and evaluations of the AIRPARIF, British, and Norwegian solution are made by the authors and may not do these excellent solutions full justice. Our purpose has been to look for common features in development trends in order to identify some lessons of value for the further development of the EEA AQ web. We would like to thank Tim Haigh at EEA for inviting us to make this report, and all valuable and interesting discussions with him in this process. The EEA ozone web is an excellent starting point for a full EEA AQ web. We also thank Karine Leger at AIRPARIF and Paul Willis NETCEN for valuable discussions. Furthermore we thank Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Jaroslav Fiala and Wim Mol for their contributions at the expert workshop in March 2006. Also thanks to the Norwegian Ministry of Environment who made funding available for this work through the ETC/ACC yearly funding.